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No. 476,765. Patented June '7, 1892.

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ATTORNEY.

N ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GILBERT P. KNAPP, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY- -PACKAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,765, dated June 7, 1892..

Application filed May 14, 1891. Serial No. 392,714. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GILBERT P. KNAPP, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Display-Package, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the construction of boxes or gross packages of the class employed for the purpose of packing and displaying goods that are primarily put up in smaller individual packages, the object of the invention being to permanently secure to the cover of the said gross-package an advertising-card, but to so connect such card to the package-cover that it will hang in a substantially vertical plane when the cover is thrown back to open the package, whereby the card is disposed so that it will appear to the best advantage and all danger of the loss of the card is overcome.

To the end above set forth the invention consists, essentially, of apackage, to the cover of which there is hinged an advertising-card, all as will be hereinafter more fully explained, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar reference figures and letters indicate correspondingparts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved display-package, the same being represented as it appears when the cover is thrown back to expose the contents of the package. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional elevation of the package on a reduced scale, the parts being represented as they appear when the package is closed. Fig. 3 is a similar view, the parts, however, being represented as they appear when the package is open; and Fig. 1 is a detail View illustrating my preferred connection between the package-cover and the advertising-card.

In the drawings above referred to, 10 represents the package proper, the side and front walls of which are by preference cut away, as illustrated, so that the individual-goods packages A will be exposed when the cover 11 is thrown back to the position in which it is shown in Figs. 1 and 3. This cover 11 is hinged to the upper edge of the rear wall of the package-body 10, and all undue backward movement of the coveris prevented by limitstraps 12 12, that are secured to the package-body and to the cover in the ordinary way. To the'edge 2 of the cover 11 I hinge an advertising-card 13, the connection between the cover and card being by preference established by means of a flexible strip of textile goods 14:, such strip being glued or pasted to the cover and card.

From the above description it will be seen that when the cover 11 is in the position in' which it is shown in Fig. 2 the card 13 will rest between the front wall of the cover and the packages A, but that when the cover is thrown back to the position in which it is shown in Figs. 1 and 3 the card will swing down and hang in a plane that is substantially vertical, whereby the matter upon the card will be displayed to the best advantage.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a package and its cover, of a card connected to the cover at or near the front edge by a flexible connection in position to hang in a substantially vertical plane when the package is open.

2. The combination, with a package and its cover having the downwardlyextending front side inclosing the front of the package when closed, of the card attached at the upper edge to the edge of said front side by a flexible connection, whereby it will depend therefrom when the package is open, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a package having its front wall cut away to expose its contents, the hinged cover having the front side inclosing the cut-away portion when closed and the stops for limiting backward movement of the cover, of the card connected to the front or upper portion of the cover by a flexible connection, substantially as described.

GILBERT P. KNAPP. Witnesses:

EDWARD KENT, J 1:, ARTHUR L. KENT. 

